History of The Hill School
The Hill School was founded in 1851 by the Rev. Matthew Meigs as the Family Boarding School for Boys and Young Men.[1] However, it soon, acquired its current name from the mansion in which the school was originally located in which was known as The Hill.[2]
The School opened on May 1, 1851, enrolling 25 boys for the first year. According to Paul Chancellor’s The History of The Hill School: 1851-1976, “He [Meigs] wanted to stress that he was not founding still another academy, but a type of school quite new and rare in America. There is a tendency to think that the boys’ boarding school as we know it existed as long as there have been private schools. It has not. Most of the 12 to 15 schools generally considered the “core” group were established in the last half of the nineteenth century. Of this whole group of schools, The Hill was the first to be founded as a "family boarding school" (a school where the students lived on campus), as opposed to boarding with families in the town.[3]
"In the thirty-five years of John Meigs' administration 'The Hill,' as it is known to all its boys, has become one of the great secondary schools of the country. It might be said to bear the same relation to the English public schools of Rugby and Eton and Westminster that the American college bears to the English universities. It has the traditions of scholarship, good breeding, and moral ideals characteristic of the English-speaking race, and with them it has the spirit of American democracy."[4]
Fires[edit]
Three fires occurred during the school's history in 1884, 1890, and 1973[5]
After the fire of 1890, electric lights were installed in every room, which was a first for an educational institution in the United States[6]
Co-education[edit]
The school became coeducational in 1998.[7][8] with the admission of 88 girls[9]
Wyndcroft School[edit]
In 1918, faculty created an open air school for children which has become the The Wyndcroft School.[10]
The Hill School camp[edit]
In 1910, several teachers purchased the Rust family farm in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire to establish a summer academic program called the Hill camp. The program included environmental biology courses, developmental and remedial reading, and review and preview work in secondary school subjects, and was open to applicants from all schools Grades 7 to 12.[11] It also offered water sports, and other outdoor activities, and hired teachers from other prominent schools, and attracted students from both the US and abroad.[12] The camp is currently independently run by the Wolfeboro Camp School.[13]
References[edit]
- ↑ Kennedy, Joseph. "Hill School tradition? It's all in the family The Meigses, father and son, shepherded it from a boarding school for boys to one of the nation's top prep schools". philly.com. Retrieved 27 November 2015.
- ↑ https://www.ancestry.co.uk/boards/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=6798&p=localities.northam.usa.states.pennsylvania.counties.schuylkill
- ↑ The History of the Hill School:1851-1976, Paul Chancellor. The Hill School: Pottstown, Pennsylvania, 1976
- ↑ http://www.meigs.org/john_659.htm
- ↑ http://www.thehill.org/RelId/1163107/ISvars/default/Miscellaneous.htm
- ↑ https://archive.org/stream/masterofhillbiog00bowiiala#page/114/mode/2up/search/electric
- ↑ Kozleski, Lisa. "Jack And Jill Will Attend The Hill * Girls Look Forward To Being In First Co-ed Class At Traditional All-male School.", The Morning Call, May 24, 1998. Accessed March 13, 2017. "For 147 years, you could count on certain things at The Hill School in Pottstown.... But come fall, this last tradition will change when the school, one of the last bastions of male-only boarding education in the United States, will welcome 75 girls to its hallowed halls. The girls will be placed at all four grade levels, the equivalent of traditional high school grades 9-12."
- ↑ History and Trivia, The Hill School. Accessed March 13, 2017. "What was The Hill School’s first year of coeducation? 1998-1999; The Hill graduated 13 young women in 1999."
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrOIAJSfvPs
- ↑ Shaw, Sharon A. "The World at Wyndcroft; Although firmly rooted in tradition, The Wyndcroft School continues to evolve", Suburban Life, September 2014. Accessed March 13, 2017. "Founded in 1918 by parents of nearby Hill School students for their younger children, Wyndcroft has evolved to meet the changing needs of its students."
- ↑ https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eJYkoB-5gBAC&pg=PA72&lpg=PA72&dq=the+hill+school+pottstown+olympics&source=bl&ots=STvnxUjqje&sig=shxT2hMlxqKqqUwOfLBb5qk5e_4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjxuNfav__SAhUrCsAKHRUpCccQ6AEINjAG#v=onepage&q=the%20hill%20school%20pottstown%20olympics&f=false
- ↑ https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-RVbAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA16-PA9&lpg=RA16-PA9&dq=the+hill+school+pottstown+tuition+1920&source=bl&ots=NKn4TBHt8M&sig=7F44hh0t4XfgtvGBmgZds_2-O24&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwikxqeWw__SAhViB8AKHZqCAJ4Q6AEIMDAE#v=onepage&q=the%20hill%20school%20pottstown%20tuition%201920&f=false
- ↑ https://www.wolfeboro.org/page/about/mission--history-
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